On 1 Jun 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Nobody is working on Alpha boot floppies for Woody at the moment. > This is a bad situation. Unless alpha porters start working on > getting things going for their architecture, won't that mean we don't > have boot-floppies and Alpha will not be able to participate in the > Woody release?
Quite the contrary...work is being done on the Alpha boot floppies, but apparently it wasn't announced. Ron Farrer and I will be working jointly on them. Ron's hit quite a few stumbling blocks (the biggest of which is his low bandwidth problem at home), but I've been mostly unable to even start because I don't have a woody chroot or woody system to do the builds on (I have one alpha...it's running sid and I have no room for a chroot). I wrote to the admin list to see if we could get a woody chroot on lully, but I haven't heard a responce on this at all yet (over two weeks now...and my message also stated that lully needed a kernel change due to random lockups). Ron put out a query for volunteers to assist and possibly take over boot-floppies on Alpha totally. He got quite a few responces, but nobody is a debian devel yet, so that doesn't help much on the immediate side. Any ideas on how we can get this done? Without a chroot, Ron has problems pulling even a few packages over his modem and I just don't have the room for a chroot, leaving lully as our only alternative to work on (which, of course, I haven't gotten any responce on). C
